A teacher who escaped the attack, said the insurgents stormed the school around 7:00pm through the eastern part of the town.

A parent said he has two daughters in the school but could only find one of them. “We have no idea where she’s now, her sister said they were at the hall when the insurgents struck, and it was the last time she saw her. We are calling on the state and the federal government to act fast before it gets worst.”

A mother who could not trace her daughter said she had forced her daughter to go back to school even when she always complained that there was no security in the school.

An SSS3 student Maimuna Lawan, who escaped the attack, said the terrorits stormed the gate around 6:30pm, “They were shouting that we should not run. We got terrified by the gunshots and scale the fence, we are not sure if they abducted some student but we suspected they did because, they were calling some students when I ran away.”

An anonymous source in the school said some of the students trekked between 15 and 20 kilometres in the bush to save their lives.

“We have also received calls from Fulani settlements that they are bringing more students they found in the bush. So far, no dead body has been recovered, but we heard that one pupil was bitten by a snake. She was said to have been treated locally. But she would be taken to a hospital in Damaturu for proper attention.”

Although the Yobe State government said many of the girls are still unaccounted for, security operatives have been drafted to search for the remaining missing students. Meanwhile, the rescued girls have been are reportedly with the Nigerian Army.